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round. The base is sex-foil edged with delicate mouldings enclosing 
vertical reedings. The monogram $HS is engraved within a circle 
on the front compartment, ‘This is in place of the usual crucifix, 
and is not found on many other examples. The dimensions are :— 
height, 53in.; diameter of bowl, 3fin. ; diameter of base, 3%in. and 
3hin. On March 8rd, 1553, the Commissioners of Edward VI. 
delivered to Robert Wright and John Hunter for this parish ‘ one 
cuppe or chalice by indenture of six ounces and a half” The 
present weight of the chalice is 6oz. 17dwts., the difference being 
accounted for as nearly as possible by the estimated weight of solder 
used in repairs. There are no hall-marks; the dates of the known 
examples of this type are 1507, 1517, and 1521. With the ex- 
ception of some slight and unimportant repairs this chalice is pretty 
much in its original condition.” 
The Highworth chalice is described in vol. xxv., p. 341, of the 
Magazine, but it seems worth while to give the accompanying illus- 
tration, taken, like the others, from Mr. Nightingale’s “ Wilts Church 
Plate,” of a piece which is one of the finest known specimens of its 
type in England. It is hall-marked 1534, and is described by the 
Commissioners of Edward VI. as “j challis or ecuppe hole gilt. 
xvj oz.” Its present weight is somewhat over this—a difference 
due doubtless, as before, to solder used in repairs. It stands 63 in. 
high, the diameter of the bowl is 43in., and that of the base, 5fin. 
The paten, which is also given in the accompanying plate, is— 
though not hall-marked—pretty certainly of the same date, and, 
like the two pre-Reformation patens of Knook and West Grimstead, 
in the south of the county, is almost perfectly plain and unorna- 
mented, in this respect differing from the large majority of pre- 
Reformation patens hitherto noticed, which almost always have 
some subject, such as the sacred monogram, the Manus Dei, the 
Agnus, or the Vernicle engraved in the centre. 
Of the other pre-Reformation patens not described in the Magazine 
before, that of Corsley is silver-gilt, with two depressions, the second 
sex-foil, and $39 surrounded by a double circle in the centre. Its 
diameter is 44in., and its date probably circa 1510. Teffont Magna 
retains a paten of about the same date, with only one circular de- 
